Tag: Health

Here’s what Friday will look like in the House

Pete Kasperowicz · March 23, 2017 9:13 pm

The conservative House Freedom Caucus is drafting a major amendment to the GOP plan to repeal Obamacare after House Speaker Paul Ryan conceded the bill needed to be fixed. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Mark Meadows: ‘Progress is being made,’ but no deal yet

Nicole Duran, Pete Kasperowicz · March 23, 2017 8:05 pm

The Freedom Caucus is clearly driven by outside groups such as Heritage Action, which has become such an all-or-nothing, my-way-or-the-highway outfit that it makes Patrick Henry look like a compromising squish. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Republicans should be disgusted with the House Freedom Caucus

Quin Hillyer · March 23, 2017 7:34 pm

Left behind economically, neglected politically and dismissed culturally, millions of men and women have slipped into a web of despair — alienation, self-loathing, social dysfunction, addiction and eventually early death. (iStock photo)

Beltway Confidential

The white working class and the ‘deaths of despair’

Daniel Allott · March 23, 2017 2:04 pm

The Obamacare replacement bill fails to provide a coherent framework for curbing the relentless rise in medical prices. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

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Taming the medical cost trend (not really)

Joel White · March 23, 2017 4:04 am

The Palmer-Schweikert amendment would set aside $15 billion for states to reimburse health insurance for covering sicker patients. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

House Freedom Caucus to huddle with Trump after he told its chairman ‘I’m coming after you’

Daniel Chaitin · March 23, 2017 3:30 am

Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Pa., said in a statement late Wednesday he has chosen to oppose the American Health Care Act after an hours-long meeting with House Speaker Paul Ryan, who sought to convince him to support it. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Key moderate Republican Charlie Dent says he opposes healthcare bill

Robert King, Daniel Chaitin · March 23, 2017 3:03 am

Obama's Medicare savings are crucial to the healthcare plan achieving a positive score from the CBO. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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It’s fiscally irresponsible to vote in favor of the House Republican bill to repeal Obamacare

Chris Jacobs · March 23, 2017 12:00 am

This bill achieves long-standing free market goals: lower taxes, lower spending, expanded HSA's and entitlement reform. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Grover Norquist: A vote against the House Republican healthcare bill is a vote in favor of Obamacare

Grover Norquist · March 22, 2017 10:01 pm

House Republican leaders are resorting to arm-twisting tactics and backroom deals to get the votes they need to pass the American Health Care Act. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

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If Republicans are going to try to repeal Obamacare, they should go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.

Mike Needham, David McIntosh, Adam Brandon, Ken Cuccinelli · March 22, 2017 9:10 pm

Tobacco harm reduction should mean informing smokers and the public at large that e-cigarettes and smokeless products carry far less risk of illness and death than cigarettes. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Beltway Confidential

The government has to change its tune on how to reduce harm from tobacco

Joel Nitzkin · March 22, 2017 5:46 pm

House leaders warn that if the bill tanks Thursday the Freedom Caucus will bear the blame and incur President Trump's considerable wrath. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

New Capitol Hill conventional wisdom: House Freedom Caucus will take blame if healthcare bill fails

Nicole Duran · March 22, 2017 5:54 am